A slew of “Best of 2014” lists came out this week. Paste Magazine’s staff named the best 12 docs of 2014, while Susan Gerhard listed the top 10 docs of the year at Fandor. At Indiewire, Anthony Kaufman named the best 12 docs of the 2014. Gregg Kilday of The Hollywood Reporter had a list of 15 docs from the year that must be seen.

Indiewire’s Paula Bernstein made a useful meta-post rounding up their coverage of documentary filmmaking advice from the past year.

Craig Phillips of Independent Lens announced details of the show’s Winter/Spring schedule this week, with RICH HILL, EVOLUTION OF A CRIMINAL and THE KILL TEAM among those films slated for the program. Kevin Ritchie of Realscreen also covered the news.

At Realscreen, Manori Ravindran reported that ITVS Commissioner Claire Aguilar had been hired by the Sheffield Doc/Fest as director of programming and industry engagement. Sarah Cooper of Screen Daily also covered the news, while the ITVS Beyond The Box blog wrote a farewell thank you message to Aguilar.

Realscreen’s Adam Benzine reported that International Documentary Association (IDA) Executive Director Michael Lumpkin was leaving to become the director of the AFI Docs festival in Washington, D.C. AFI Docs had a press release announcing the hire.

At the Washington Post, Roberto A. Ferdman wrote an article about the effect that the film BLACKFISH has had on SeaWorld’s stock price.

Writing for New York Magazine’s Vulture blog, Bilge Ebiri profiled the work of the Harvard Sensory Ethnography Lab.

The Freep Film Festival this week announced the dates for its 2015 fest, which is set to take place March 19-22.